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1322. Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 2–58
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 2–58
- Title:
- Old English Homilies, coronation oath, translation of the Pater Noster, and translation of the Apostles' Creed
- Scope & Content:
- These folios contain Old English homilies and liturgy in Old English, possibly created for Bishop Leofric and his cathedral at Exeter in about the 3rd quarter of the 11th century. ff. 2r–55v: Old English Homilies, included some from Ælfric’s Catholic Homilies, some from the Vercelli Book, and s...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 11th century
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII (parchment codex)
1323. Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 59–90
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 59–90
- Title:
- Vita sancti Dunstani by B; rhymed responsory from an office for Gregory the Great
- Scope & Content:
- These folios contain the first Vita of St Dunstan (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2342), composed by an author known only as 'B'. This text does not include the prologue found in other copies of B's Vita. The text in these folios was probably copied at the beginning of the eleventh century. On...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII
1324. Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 91–157
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII, ff 91–157
- Title:
- De gestis Britonum et Anglorum,attributed to Peter of Ickham, with continuations
- Scope & Content:
- These folios contain a history of the kings of Britain and England, beginning 'Non solum audiendis scripturae sacrae', which has been attributed to Peter of Ickham, with further continuations into the 14th century. There are at least three phases of continuation, and one set of changes of scribe...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 14th century-15th century
- Extent:
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Part of Cotton MS Cleopatra B XIII
1325. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 1r-1v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 1r-1v
- Title:
- Leaf of a Book of Hours
- Scope & Content:
- Miniature of the Annunciation attributed to the Master of the Harvard Hannibal (a Parisian artist active in the early 15th century named after Cambridge (MA), Harvard College Library, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32), with a gold frame and foliate borders (f. 1r); lines from the Te Deum and t...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1415-c 1420
- Extent:
- 1 folio, bound together in a single volume with the remainder of this manuscript.
1326. Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 2r–203v
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Cleopatra C VI, ff 2r–203v
- Title:
- Ancrene Riwle, with added poems and prayers
- Scope & Content:
- Ancrene Riwle (Ancrene Wisse) in Middle English (ff. 4r–199r: Boffey 734.5, 1820, 1917, 2285, 3568): this is one of the two oldest surviving manuscripts of the text. Added in the 2nd half of the 13th century to 2nd half of the 14th century (ff. 9v lower margin, 57v, 199r–202v): Prayers in Lat...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Anglo-Norman, English, Middle, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 13th century-2nd half of the 14th century
- Extent:
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202 folios, bound together in a single volume with f. 1 of this manuscript.
1327. Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 2–55
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 2–55
- Title:
- Bede the Venerable, De natura rerum (excerpt); Isidore of Seville, De natura rerum; a glossary to Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Prés's Bella Parisiace urbis, book 3 followed by glosses on a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Computistical tables; a commentary on Priscian's Institutio de nomine, pronomine et verbo; Bede, De die iudicii; a Latin colophon of three hexameters, a recipe in Old English and a list of books.
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: f. 2r: at the top of the leaf the four disciplines of the quadrivium are enunciated in Latin with a translation in Old English above each one. They are followed by the enumeration of the four main sciences presented in Latin and in Old English in the same way. f. 2r: Bede the Vener...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old and Latin
- Date Range:
- Mid 10th century-1st quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Domitian A I
1328. Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 56–160
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A I, ff 56–160
- Title:
- Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae; Gerald of Wales Descriptio Cambriae; Gerald of Wales Retractationes; Gerald of Wales Catalogus brevior librorum suorum; Annales Cambriae; Life of David fitz Gerald (Vita David secundi); Cognacio Brychan.
- Scope & Content:
- Contents: ff. 56r-58r: Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae, Preface. Rubric: 'Stephano Cantuariensi archiepiscopo in Odoporion Giraldi prefatio prima'. Incipit: 'Sicut variis rerum motibus et mutacionibus tempora moventur'. ff. 58r-v: Gerald of Wales, Itinerarium Cambriae. Table of chapter...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 13th century-Mid 16th century
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Domitian A I.
1329. Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 8
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 8
- Title:
- Alphabets; fragment of Jerome, De Formis Hebraicarum Litterarum;Dionysius Exiguus, computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This folio contains alphabets or pseudo-alphabets, part of a fragment of Jerome's De Formis Hebraicarum Litterarum (8r), and Dionysius Exiguus's computistical letter addressed to Boniface and Bonus (8r–v: imperfect), copied in the second half of the 8th century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- Latin
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 8th century
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX
1330. Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 9
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Cotton MS Domitian A IX, f 9
- Title:
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, AD 1113–1114 (imperfect)
- Scope & Content:
- This folio contains part of a chronicle written in Old English. It covers the end of the entry for 1113 AD and the beginning of the entry for 1114. The leaf has been bound the wrong way round in this manuscript (see Ker, Catalogue (1957), p. 188). Decoration: Initial in red (f. 9v).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Date Range:
- 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Extent:
-
Part of Cotton MS Domitian A IX